MARCH MADNESS 2024 - Day 20
Added 2024-03-20 16:00:25 +0000 UTCIn another close race, the Equalizer defeats Ernest and sends him to movie jail.
Up today - formative comedies with sophomoric sensibilities.
It's HAPPY MADISON ORIGINS vs AMERICAN PIE.

Fun fact - Alyson Hannigan and Jason Biggs once presented Adam Sandler with a People's Choice Award! For "Favorite Comedic Movie Actor" !!
With HAPPY MADISON ORIGINS, we'd cover the six Sandler vehicles that led to the creation of his Happy Madison production shingle with LITTLE NICKY:
BILLY MADISON
HAPPY GILMORE
THE WEDDING SINGER
THE WATERBOY
BIG DADDY
LITTLE NICKY
With AMERICAN PIE, we'd cover the four theatrically-released films:
American Pie
American Pie 2
American Wedding
American Reunion
So - Bobby Boucher's momma? Or Stiffler's mom?
Comments
My real birthday is in January but I’ve been celebrating it publicly in May since high school lmao. I call it my May Birthday.
Laura Horstmann
2024-03-22 22:37:18 +0000 UTCI voted for American Pie *solely* so we could get another Weitz episode.
Sara Malec
2024-03-21 14:48:41 +0000 UTCI watched little Nicky so many times it broke my vhs player.
Broccololipop
2024-03-21 11:47:59 +0000 UTCThis comment makes me feel proud to be an American
Luke Crawford
2024-03-21 03:00:22 +0000 UTCAye, but… there’s the Highlander.
Tyler Duggan
2024-03-21 02:56:58 +0000 UTC🎯
Martín Peréz
2024-03-21 02:11:44 +0000 UTCFart yeah.
Martín Peréz
2024-03-21 02:09:16 +0000 UTCSandman could take it all
Anthony Regina
2024-03-21 00:48:55 +0000 UTCGood on ya -I stupid love Little Nicky
Janet feeney
2024-03-21 00:43:18 +0000 UTCDoesn't anyone want to force Chris Weitz to talk about all of the sequels he has nothing to do with in a single marathon recording session?
PJ McColl
2024-03-20 23:22:05 +0000 UTCSince when do we get extras on commentaries? 😂 Someone please Refresh my memory if I’ve forgotten.
Kevin Love Hewitt
2024-03-20 23:07:10 +0000 UTCYou got me straight podcastin’ boo.
David Celaya
2024-03-20 22:15:35 +0000 UTCI am here to vote for Buscemi’s appearance in Wedding Singer alone
Laura Bee
2024-03-20 21:49:41 +0000 UTCMy money is on Highlander
Tyler Duggan
2024-03-20 19:31:21 +0000 UTCFor a long time I would vocally make the case that it was "this generation's 'Carry On...'. Not sure how that's worked out for either the series or me.
zero
2024-03-20 19:04:25 +0000 UTC11 y/o psyche Sandler wins for me hands down. When I stop thinking "He called the shit poop" is funny, call a doctor
24HRVideo
2024-03-20 18:53:01 +0000 UTCI just need Rodney Dangerfield playing with those head boobs in Little Nicky, now that's culture.
Ray
2024-03-20 18:48:46 +0000 UTCWhat? You don't like Chris Farleys tits in Billy Madison? Outrageous.
Ray
2024-03-20 18:47:36 +0000 UTCDo you think him and Adam are still friends? I always see him with the others, but Rob's absent
Ray
2024-03-20 18:46:43 +0000 UTCI'm struggling to place which ones which lol. Ones aged significantly better comedically.
Ray
2024-03-20 18:46:08 +0000 UTCEh, let them do it on their own time. It's Happy's time now.
Ray
2024-03-20 18:45:03 +0000 UTCI feel like it’s going to be a “Kong versus Godzilla” collision course between Tabletop Games and Happy Madison in the finals, and Tabletop Games might be the only one that could stop it.
Adam Mincks
2024-03-20 18:32:44 +0000 UTCL
Boo Sting
2024-03-20 18:14:15 +0000 UTCIs there anything that can stop Happy Madison?
Rebecca C
2024-03-20 18:11:52 +0000 UTCI can't believe we're just throwing away another Chris Weitz commentary by not voting American Pie. Don't you people understand!?
Ben Staub
2024-03-20 18:06:46 +0000 UTCCome on get Happy
Jordan Fish
2024-03-20 18:00:19 +0000 UTCWow, I had to look this up to see if it was real or a bit. All too real. :-(
Carolyn Lewis
2024-03-20 17:50:54 +0000 UTCJosh Mclane
2024-03-20 17:34:08 +0000 UTCWhatever wins, I hope it’s crushed immediately.
DJV
2024-03-20 17:12:11 +0000 UTCThey should have me on as a guest to talk about the time that I, through an insane confluence of circumstances, saw Little Nicky three times in theaters.
Janine Liberty
2024-03-20 17:06:08 +0000 UTCThe battle of 11 year old psyche vs 15 year old psyche
24HRVideo
2024-03-20 17:04:39 +0000 UTC#Justice4Ernest
Blake R.
2024-03-20 16:59:29 +0000 UTCIf Sandler wins will we get a bonus commentary for Rob Schneider's newest stand up special released by Fox Nation "Woke Up in America"? You'll never believe his material on "cancel culture", I'll just say he's not too fond of it.
CT13
2024-03-20 16:54:48 +0000 UTCI’m American and I don’t get it either. I think I was too old when his “comedy” was new and I never fell for his man child persona.
Jeremiah Drueke
2024-03-20 16:54:17 +0000 UTCIf there's one thing I'm praying for in this entire March Madness it's that Adam Sandler "comedies" don't win. It's one of those ultimate "I really don't get Americans and the things they like" things for me
Literaltruth
2024-03-20 16:52:40 +0000 UTCThank you everyone for supporting my need for Little Nicky to be on the podcast. For those of you that don't know, he is a very sweet boy from the south. The deep south
Jordan Gibson
2024-03-20 16:52:16 +0000 UTCJustice for Ernest
Justin Hiltz
2024-03-20 16:38:38 +0000 UTCHappy Madison all the way!
Aaron Crabtree
2024-03-20 16:38:25 +0000 UTCFinally something I vote for that looks like it will win. I was taking nothing but Ls for the last few matchups. lol.
Misfit Minded
2024-03-20 16:35:45 +0000 UTCHappy Madison origins seems like a freight train
Owen Condon
2024-03-20 16:33:35 +0000 UTCSandler 💯 baby!
Alison R.B.
2024-03-20 16:21:02 +0000 UTCAmerican Try Hard with a Vengeance
Luke Crawford
2024-03-20 16:21:01 +0000 UTCI'm pretty disappointed in us as an audience overall...
Luke Crawford
2024-03-20 16:19:44 +0000 UTCThis bracket lost all meaning after Ernest was pushed out
Zachary Stein
2024-03-20 16:18:54 +0000 UTCI dunno, I think the pursuit of a big-tittied hit went to Sandler's head on that one.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-03-20 16:18:45 +0000 UTCI'd love an American Pie series some day, especially because I remember the last two entries committing surprisingly hard to the emotional underpinnings of the films in between the sex jokes and gross-out gags (which was always the secret of the first film's success). That said, Happy Madison is just too strong.
Douglas Wykstra
2024-03-20 16:18:05 +0000 UTC*Bob Barker voice* The Pie is wrong, bitch!
Del Lorenson
2024-03-20 16:17:54 +0000 UTCThe people need to know
Seymour Butz
2024-03-20 16:17:03 +0000 UTCVoted for American Pie as it’s such a weird franchise and funny to watch as the years go by
Dalton Johnson
2024-03-20 16:14:53 +0000 UTCI think it has more to do with the fact that American Pie just sucks. But that didn't stop The Equalizer, so let's see what happens...
Luke Crawford
2024-03-20 16:14:33 +0000 UTCKevin Nealon boob headed hit
Blank Check with Griffin & David
2024-03-20 16:14:27 +0000 UTCNo thank you to Sandler
Jeff Brax
2024-03-20 16:13:58 +0000 UTCLittle nicky was a big tittied hit with me personally
Adam
2024-03-20 16:13:44 +0000 UTCHe definitely does an absolutely necessary course correct in Waterboy from the Canteen Boy sketches where we’re explicitly supposed to be on Bobby’s side in the movie, versus the SNL sketches where we were supposed to side with the bullies causing Canteen Boy misery
Anthony Pierre Coco
2024-03-20 16:13:32 +0000 UTCCan we get cyber ninjas to get to the bottom of Ernest getting robbed?
Sean
2024-03-20 16:13:04 +0000 UTCMore like American Tried
Evan
2024-03-20 16:12:48 +0000 UTCI'm just saying that 102.64 of you are statistically liable if we end up having to listen to an Equalizer series...
Luke Crawford
2024-03-20 16:12:17 +0000 UTCMaybe I’m showing my age but, Grownups might be the first time I pissed myself laughing. Happy Madison all the way
David Thompson
2024-03-20 16:12:12 +0000 UTCVoted for American Pie because, even though Happy Madison would rule, that 60% gap is kinda mean. We don't need to do the Pie wrong. Who are we? A bunch of Jims?
Holden Martinson
2024-03-20 16:11:57 +0000 UTCWe can just tell Adam Sandler we ate the pie
Rad Miracle
2024-03-20 16:11:25 +0000 UTCBefore I place the vote, we listening to the R-rated cut where he fucks the pie doggy style or the Unrated cut where he fucks the pie in missionary position?
Matthew Chmiel
2024-03-20 16:10:31 +0000 UTCOOH. That was the grossest thing I've ever heard in my life. LET’S GO!
Matthew Chmiel
2024-03-20 16:09:48 +0000 UTCHonestly, I always viewed American Pie as a bro-y thing. Sandler's characters were outsiders, and I always gravitate toward that. I also feel like the first American Pie is the only one I would need commentary for.
Billnetherlands
2024-03-20 16:09:41 +0000 UTCI think Happy gonna win it all
David Rosenblatt
2024-03-20 16:09:36 +0000 UTCMy heart is absolutely broken over Ernest 😭💔😭💔😭 Is there a thumb on the scale here by suggesting that Jason Biggs yielded the "best" award in this picture?
Luke Crawford
2024-03-20 16:08:59 +0000 UTCI’m just going to keep making the joke every time Sandler comes up: If voting for Happy Madison Origins is cool, consider me Miles Davis.
Christopher Roundhill
2024-03-20 16:08:50 +0000 UTCI will die for the Pie
Seymour Butz
2024-03-20 16:08:26 +0000 UTCMOMMA
Tom Jorgensen
2024-03-20 16:08:09 +0000 UTC“He’s losing his mind…. And I’m reaping all the benefits!”-john lovitz
Martín Peréz
2024-03-20 16:08:01 +0000 UTCSandler is also a total loser in all those movies, except maybe the Wedding Singer where he's such a sweetheart. He's just a combative awkward loser instead of a shy awkward loser.
Mike Ostrov
2024-03-20 16:07:37 +0000 UTCAllen Covert Ops....that a joke?
Oliver Brindle
2024-03-20 16:07:32 +0000 UTCHow dare you all send Ernest to movie jail
Greg Jagger
2024-03-20 16:07:31 +0000 UTCErnest robbed, time for my runner up to win it all
The Real Kal-El
2024-03-20 16:07:17 +0000 UTCSandler is going to run the table after this.
zach pyke
2024-03-20 16:07:13 +0000 UTCPraying Happy Madison goes all the way
Chris
2024-03-20 16:07:09 +0000 UTCHappy Madison is a WAGON
Curt Weiler
2024-03-20 16:07:01 +0000 UTCSandler going all the way
Justin Bertolero
2024-03-20 16:07:00 +0000 UTCWhat?
Dustin
2024-03-20 16:06:38 +0000 UTCAs a millennial, this might be the hardest bracket yet.
Matthew Chmiel
2024-03-20 16:06:36 +0000 UTCAbout the Blank Check fanbase, rather
Anthony Pierre Coco
2024-03-20 16:04:16 +0000 UTCIt says something about Blank Check that the franchise ostensibly built to speak to us awkward nerds spoke to us less than a silly man going “hadaheehoo”
Anthony Pierre Coco
2024-03-20 16:03:53 +0000 UTC